To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee explores with exuberant humourthe irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The Week

Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable.

Truman Capote

There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written

Sunday Times

No one ever forgets this book

Independent

Her book is lifted … into the rare company of those that linger in the memory

Bookman

One of the best novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental

Guardian

A rich and remarkable novel

Daily Express

There's a beautiful simplicity to it that means anyone can read it... Transcends any particular time or generation

Tim Burgess, The Times